In today's Dallas News, a beautiful story about an adopted girl from Romania and an adopted Toah scroll from her home country and how they came together for her Bat-Mitzvah in Texas.

Girl and 'her' Torah are both survivors from Romania

There aren't many examples where I personally feel that a more spiritual and meaningful experience can come from breaking traditional rules of observance, but this is one of them.

On a side note, the Dallas Holocaust Museum is looking to move from the basment of the local JCC to downtown. According to the article, 98 percent of the current visitors are not Jewish.